Nov. 18, 2025 6 AM PT
To the editor: Thanks for the uplifting article about California having adequate battery capability to generate one-third of the estimated capability wanted to achieve its objective of 100% clear power by 2045 (“Newsom touts California’s record battery energy gains at U.N. climate conference,” Nov. 13). I used to be shocked to be taught the one area or jurisdiction producing extra inexperienced power than California is the second-largest economy in the world, China.
California now ranks because the world’s fourth-largest economy, with a GDP of greater than $4.1 trillion — decrease than solely the U.S. total, China and Germany. In 2024, California had a GDP progress price of 6%, outpacing the highest three.
Many like to be unfavourable about California and its “ills,” however maybe it’s time we began to talk out broadly about our accomplishments within the face of cutbacks nationally in inexperienced power. We watch the federal authorities try to dismantle these initiatives to assuage the ego within the White Home. Gov. Gavin Newsom has carried out a terrific job tickling President Trump’s insecurities — I hope he continues to take action with California’s achievements and inexperienced power.
I imagine strongly within the California Dream, and that California will cleared the path for the USA to lastly be a part of the inexperienced revolution we’re shedding out on. Within the nice phrases of my hero Winston Churchill, “We will struggle on the seashores … we will struggle within the hills, we will by no means give up!”
Laurie S. Adami, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Our governor may put a few of his touted battery energy to work stopping fires right here in L.A. County and elsewhere. Many fires, together with the 2018 Camp hearth (Pacific Gas & Electric), the 2019 Kincade hearth (PG&E) and doubtlessly the 2019 Saddle Ridge hearth (Southern California Edison) and this yr’s Eaton hearth (Edison), have been attributable to wind-whipped transmission traces and their towers, particularly in hills and canyons the place winds are significantly extreme and turbulent.
Given the devastation that has resulted, wouldn’t it’s smart to make the most of a few of that battery energy close to main locations in order that using the harmful transmission traces might be reined in with out interrupting service?
On Sept. 19, Newsom signed Senate Invoice 254, permitting Southern California Edison to pass some of its losses onto ratepayers in surcharges. This, after the corporate probably allowed its ratepayers’ houses to be destroyed and some lives misplaced. Edison additionally expects to be reimbursed from the state’s wildfire fund, which clients pay into. Why can’t the governor and Legislature require that a few of that cash go to a battery system to take probably the most deadly dangers out of the transmission system?
David Ewing, Venice
